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[Okay here's another conundrum. Here she is, basically an expert on interplaner and trans-universe exploration, and there he is with the exact same experience buried in his dumb voidfish-blocked noggin, and she has no idea how to share any of that with him. Awesome. Business as usual for them here.

But she also isn't about to ignore it because 1) it's Taako, duh, and 2) she wants to know what he's up to.

Time to get creative.]

Are you looking for specific stories or do you want to talk theory? Because if it's the former, we're gonna have some problems.

[And that excuse is getting old, but there's not much to be done about it at this point...]

Eh, I'd do either honestly. [Although specific instances of being able to break out of one reality and into another is exactly what he wants, he'll take theory just as well.]

But if the Voidfish Boogaloo won't let you tell me one, just go with the other.

I'll start off vague, then. Give you my resume, maybe you can do something with it.

[Once he starts hearing static she can veer off and try a different angle. They'll figure something out.]

I used to travel between planer systems. I... guess technically as a job, though it kind of got out of hand at the start. It was mostly on the Prime Material plane, but we'd poke our noses into the others when we had to. You know the full concept of the Twelve, yeah?

[Cheating again- she'd been with him in the Miller lab, but she's not sure how much he either paid attention or retained of that time. And since he can't remember living it, better to be sure.]

[Huh, so the Red Robes knew whatever Miller was up to, huh? Or they worked on it separately.

Ha! That would piss that little weasel off.]

Ugh that thing the nerd was talking about? Yeah, I'm familiar.

[And he'd taken some time to look into it after Miller had gotten his ass ejected from the Bureau for being a total knob. He still wished he'd gotten a blow or two in on that little shit, but the giant ghost golem thing had been a liiiiittle more pressing at the time.]

All the different realms, all interconnected, blah blah mirrors and colors.

[That's pretty noncommittal and unscientific, but this is also Taako, so alright. She just pinches the bridge of her nose and exhales.]

Okay... well, you know how it goes, then. The whole idea is that the planes exist simultaneously, and many of them exist exactly parallel to the Material plane. The inner planes are like that, it's why Blink works the way it does. They work the way they do because no two planes ever share the same space at the same time- they do, but they don't, right? Like if you used Blink and walked into the same space where someone's standing in the Material plane, and Blinked back, you'd get your insides kicked around and pushed out of the way. Or say if your doofus fighter buddy tried to stand inside a Red Robe for a laugh and that Red Robe phased back into existence.

[Which- Magnus, really? He's lucky Barry would never intentionally hurt him like that.]

Shit goes real bad, don't cross the streams.

Hey, if that Red Robe had phased back in then Magnus would be the one doing the kicking. He's an idiot, but have you seen his AC and his HP? It's insane.

[But yes, points taken. The planes are as they are, and they're still functioning here or he wouldn't be able to Blink. He thinks. Maybe? It's fuzzy, but he wouldn't be able to reach that plane if it didn't exist here, which means this world is still somewhat running on the same principles even if they're all stretched out of whack.]

But right right, don't go trying to stand inside something else. Generally bad idea. It's why dimensional spells like Blink just bounce you to the next available space. A lot less messy.

[She could mention that at that point Barry was not only a lich but well above their levels, literally and figuratively, but she won't, because that would be a stupid move. But oooh, so tempting.]

Yeah, exactly. The Astral Plane and the Plane of Thought work similarly, though the latter's more complicated- never been there, myself. I don't think there's a specific way to visit. Same with the Celestial Plane- it's usually a one-way street, the gods send their divine power to their clerics and whatnot, but those clerics can't just pop in for a visit. The plane of Magic is more complicated, it siphons power into the Material plane, but the raw energy would mostly likely tear you up if you tried to swing by. The whole system's got checks and balances to make sure things don't go out of whack.

[She can't help but think of that one plane they'd visited, the empty world without life, without so much as a shifting time, all because it had fused itself with another plane of existence. Magic had guided that world, and it had ripped apart life itself when they got too greedy. That was probably the world where she and Barry had learned the most about the Light, the planes, all of it.]

The outer worlds are less fussy. Their existence fueled whatever made the Material plane, but they exist wholly separate from it. It's why you need the more powerful spells or a portal to reach those planes. It's fair to assume that every system has at least some form of all twelve planes, otherwise there'd be no balance between anything- life, death, the elements, the physical and immaterial... we can use magic here, and the dead go somewhere before they're brought back, and everything we come across is made up of known materials. You can use Blink, I can... do some stuff. [Lich stuff.] We're blocked from using the other planes to escape, but they definitely exist here.

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If you don't mind him looping back to check older messages

I never mind!

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